script to find and edit config files

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diff --git a/basics/.local/bin/locate-config b/basics/.local/bin/locate-config
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+#! /usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -e
+
+CONFIG_FILES=`ls -1 ~/.local/share/config-files | cut -d "" -f 1 | sort -d`
+CONFIG_ARRAY=(`find ~/.local/share/config-files/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -print0 | sort -z | xargs -r0 echo`)
+
+INDEX=`echo "$CONFIG_FILES" | rofi -dmenu -format "i" -no-custom -mesg "Find config file for..."`
+[ -z "$INDEX" ] && exit 1
+SOURCE=${CONFIG_ARRAY[$INDEX]}
+#echo "$CONFIG_FILES"
+#for item in ${CONFIG_ARRAY[*]}
+#do
+#    printf " %s\n" $item
+#done
+# (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59895/get-the-source-directory-of-a-bash-script-from-within-the-script-itself)
+while [ -h "$SOURCE" ]; do # resolve $SOURCE until the file is no longer a symlink
+    DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"
+    SOURCE="$(readlink "$SOURCE")"
+    [[ $SOURCE != /* ]] && SOURCE="$DIR/$SOURCE" # if $SOURCE was a relative symlink, we need to resolve it relative to the path where the symlink file was located
+done
+DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"
+
+echo $SOURCE